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U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16) Natasha Trethewey
From: New Letters on the Air
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Guest editor of BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2017, Natasha Trethewey talks about her her first creative non-fiction book, BEYOND KATRINA: A MEDITATION ON T...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
PN 17-11 "Nursery" by Kiki Petrosino
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Kiki Petrosino, poet
Kiki Petrosino imagines an escape from a fairy house.

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, KENW, KHSU, and KALW


  • Added: Aug 30, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 5
StoryCorps: Sylvia Bullock and Marcus Bullock
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Sylvia Bullock and Marcus Bullock
In the mid-1990s, Reverend Sylvia Bullock was raising two kids on her own near Washington, D.C. while working and going to college full-time. Her ...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Five Mualimm-ak and Omar Mualimmak
From: StoryCorps
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StoryCorps gives people the chance to sit down together and have a conversation they’ve never had before. Five Mualimm-ak did just that with his so...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
Folk Salad for airing 6-18-17
From: SCOTT Aycock
Series: Folk Salad- Certified Organic Music
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This show is part II of our Juneteenth Series focusing African-American music and venues in North Tulsa from the 40's through the 60's. We intervi...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
PN 17-03 "I Wanna Be Ur Lover (1979)" by Douglas Kearney
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Douglas Kearney, poet, Credit: Rafael Hernandez
Douglas Kearney pays tribute to the late music icon Prince.

Bought by KALW, KHSU, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Death Penalty
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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The death penalty is the barest, most explicit aspect of state violence. Relatively few people are sentenced to death, and even fewer are actively,...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:58
Steps Forward
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week we share news and stories from two people who have been caught up in very different ways in the web of prison. Both Bresha Meadows and Pa...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 30:10
Blues America 95 - Selwyn Birchwood
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Selwyn Birchwood is celebrating his highly anticipated second studio effort for Alligator Records, ‘Pick Your Poison’ which crafts authentic tradit...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Public Radio East, WLPR , GCR (Global Community Radio), KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:56:05
  • Purchases: 12
RDD: Back to the Roots
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet Megan Yasu Davis. Megan is the founder of The Kitchen Salon, a natural and locked hair resource f...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 1
Blues America 93R - Henry Gray
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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92 year old multi Grammy-nominated blues piano master, Henry Gray, is a living legend and a national treasure whose recording career spans seven de...

Bought by KMUW, WLPR , GCR (Global Community Radio), Public Radio East, WEAA and more


  • Added: May 11, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
Listening to Ladies: Dolores White
From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies
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Composer Dolores White talks about some of her experiences of segregation, the importance of having access to a broad cultural education, and why e...

  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 30:20
Listening to Ladies: Pamela Z
From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies
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Composer Pamela Z lets us know what a phonolog was, how great the Museum of Jurassic Technology is (about which she co-wrote an opera), and how to ...

  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
Beth Macy, author of "Truevine"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Beth Macy, author of "Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South."

  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
StoryCorps: Calvin Burns and Stepheni Bellamy
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Calvin Burns and his teenage daughter, Stepheni Bellamy, visit StoryCorps to have a difficult conversation about rac

Bought by WVBI-LP, Public Radio for All, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 24, 2017
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 3
PN 16-41 “P R N D” by Tyrone Williams
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Tyrone Williams, poet
Tyrone Williams imagines a motorist’s confrontation with the police in a strip mall parking lot.

Bought by KENW, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
PN 16-40 “rudie can’t fail in south padre” by Quraysh Ali Lansana
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Quraysh Ali Lansana, poet, Credit: Alan Tarin
Quraysh Ali Lansana recalls a compromised night on the U.S./Mexico border.

Bought by KALW, KHSU, PRX Remix, and KENW


  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Michael Benjamin Ryan and Michael John Ryan
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Judge Michael John Ryan talks with his son, Michael Benjamin Ryan, about growing up in an abusive household, and how he found the strength to gradu...

Bought by Public Radio for All, WEZU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 3
Families and Prison: Part Three
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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Our focus for this episode returns to the impact of incarceration on families. First we have a discussion between our friend Lucy and one of her fe...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2017
  • Length: 28:10
Blues America 84 - Elvin Bishop
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Elvin Bishop is a living legend whose great contributions to American music have been solidified by his induction into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fa...

Bought by KDLG, Public Radio East, WART FM, KMUW, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Kansas City Jazz Poet Phyllis Becker
From: New Letters on the Air
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We continue Black History Month with Phyllis Becker. Coordinator of the Riverfront Reading Series in Kansas City, her own publications include the ...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WVAS, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Blues America 79 - Henry Gray
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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92 year old multi Grammy-nominated blues piano master, Henry Gray is a living legend and a national treasure whose recording career spans seven dec...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSRQ, and KRPS


  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Blues America 78 - Cedric Burnside
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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The Cedric Burnside Project is comprised of the exciting duo of Cedric Burnside and Trenton Ayers of Holly Springs, Mississippi. Their latest album...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KRPS, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 3
Nick Jordan Man of Accomplishment
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Nick Jordan, Credit: Moriah Ziman
Nick Jordan is a contemporary rhythm and blues and pop artist who has a handle on all phases of his act, including songwriting, singing, and dancin...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2017
  • Length: 07:06
Richard Mosse Brings Beauty, Suffering Into Focus At Dayton Art Institute Exhibit
From: renee wilde
Series: Culture Couch
Caption: Richard Mosse in front of one of his Aerochrome images
Richard Mosse’s images of the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of The Congo, are shot on film which is no longer made. In the past, it ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2017
  • Length: 05:37

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